HN shocked and appalled that a "founder" cannot make billions running a largely unmoderated social network without facing a few consequences:
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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outrage that the arrest order was issued while Durov was in the air, so he couldn’t evade justice (this is unconfirmed)
Clearly arrest warrants should be made like hide-and-seek where the seeker has to count to 100 days before arresting the hider and publish "ready or not here I come!" to their social media account.
lol, lmao even.
This is going to hit some crypto scammers pretty hard, innit?
Even Moot knew you couldn't do this. Congrats on being slower on the uptake than 4chan HN.
but if he’s just being held accountable for running a service where others did nefarious things, then this should be a chilling effect for all founders.
ok. chill them
deep freeze the mofos
YouTube rolled out a new dogshit AI feature and it near-immediately accused someone of being the meme behind the slaughter:
"Hey you said I maybe killed 5 children with murder drones on a mountain could you maybe not?"
"sorry to hear you're not liking it! it's currently not possible to opt out since this is just an experiment. but if you get a response that you feel is unhelpful or irrelevant, you can let us know by submitting feedback via these steps: https://goo.gle/3ySHg00"
Oh gosh that's such a corporate response.
Only realized that you didn't make this up when I got to the link
it’s absolutely fucked that the grammar and tone of Google’s response is so casual, and the proposed non-solution is so worthless, the whole post looks like parody — I was convinced @[email protected] must have been paraphrasing til I saw the screenshot of the original post and found out it was just a straight copy and paste
sorry you didn’t like that we implied you’re a child murderer. no takesie-backsies though! fill out this form we won’t read if you’re really sure you didn’t like our fun experiment!
I wonder if giving responses so fucking ridiculous they look like a joke is a tactic on Google’s part to make complaints about the shit they’re doing look ridiculous and overdramatic by association
Browsing over the account what really gets to me is the consistent lack of capitalization except where trademarks are involved.
Google is the United HealthCare of technology companies.
was recently trying to explain to someone how The Games is the best Olympics memory I have
maybe also that time the diver hit his head on the platform
The giant bust of Elon Musk towed by a CyberTruck is real after all! https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/large-sculpture-elon-musk-towed-cybertruck-brownsville-texas-elonrwa-nft-1234715157/
The original video I linked to looked possibly CG, because it was short and looked like the uncanny gaze of giant Elon Musk was staring directly into the camera the whole time; but turns out it is real. I'm so "happy".
And surprising exactly no one, it's an advert for an NFT.
I was wrong, Manmade horrors...
Today in finding statistical association in text data is not the same as reading
Your name appeared in a lot of articles about terrible crimes. You know who else's name appears in those articles?
request for admin input on how best to run a bracket without spamming up our microforum
that’s a good question! I’ll probably have to brainstorm this with @[email protected] later today. in the meantime, is there any precedent for how to do it on Mastodon? we might be able to adopt whatever they do — or maybe at the very least, if there’s a good way to do it there, we could link to a Mastodon thread for the bracket and keep discussion on here.
nothing springs to mind. mastodon has polls, of a sort, if a bit weird in activitypub. here's the lemmy bug.
i would say just make a thread here to fill with crap, see what happens
I mean, in the worst case, we find out if these database backups are worth a damn? but realistically, we see so much spam from activitypub already that it should be hard to make things fall over*
- unless you know which parts to push on, then it’s instant
it should be hard to make things fall over unless you know which parts to push on, then it’s instant
the IKEA model of software security
J, K. Rowling, skull enthusiast:
Khelif, who went on to win Olympic gold despite the harassment, reportedly filed a lawsuit alleging cyberbullying against Rowling (Elon Musk is also named in the suit). Shortly after the lawsuit became public on August 13, Rowling went silent on X, leading to speculation from many onlookers that she had pushed her transphobic narrative too far. On August 23, though, she again appeared on the platform, spreading more false and misleading commentary on Khelif. Her first post was a quote from a transphobic hit piece against Khelif by Colin Wright, the former managing editor of the far-right website Quillette.
lol, poor helpless joanne just can’t help but run headlong into the wall
saw something drift by that she’d also deleted a bunch of tweets in the quiet time, so her coming out swinging is doubly funny
I mean, does she actually write books anymore? Or is she a full time TERF now? Because that's a direct conflict between what's in her legal best interest and in her professional best interest.
Her professional interest would be to shut the fuck up and just live in her castle, forever rich beyond measure. She could never write another thing in her life and she'd never run out of money anyway.
Why not both? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Blood
Some media outlets regarded the male villain who dresses as a woman in order to kill women as transphobic, given the author's past comments on transgender people.
one would think so, but as of a month or two ago she's announced another book
@froztbyte @techtakes Speaking as a working writer: she's a hobbyist writer. At this point she's so rich she could spend £100K/week of her capital and still be a multimillionaire when she dies aged 100+. A novel typically takes a year to write and even JKR is unlikely to make significantly more than £100K from a book (unless it gets filmed). So she keeps writing for ego/self-esteem but not from necessity (to stop writing would leave a hole in her life).
Problematic developer with AI crush realizes she's just dust under the wheels of progress
You know those polls that say fewer than 20% of Americans trust AI scientists? It shouldn't be the case, because no group is doing more right now to elevate the universe to a higher state of complexity. You know who the public does trust? Open source developers.
Justine, LOL indeed.
elevate the universe to a higher state of complexity
girl my life already too complex, ain't no one need elevation to an even higher state of complexity
can we maybe do a lower one?
In classic Rationalist fashion, she noticed something she didn't like, hypothesized a cause with no real evidence, and then proceeded to rant about the implications of that unproven hypothesis.
My suspicion, on the other hand, is that because Claude is just reproducing statistical patterns from its training data is simply reflecting the fact that she is referred to as a Nazi coder far more often than she is as some kind of open-source luminary. Unless her github metadata signs everything "Justine T the open-source developer" then that association isn't reflected in the patterns extrapolated from the training data.
You know those polls that say fewer than 20% of Americans trust AI scientists?
No, but I'd say its a good sign we're getting close to an AI winter
Problematic developer with AI crush
I thought this was gonna go in a completely different direction.
Setting: romantic sunset beach, without a crowd in sight. There is no sound but that of a gentle breeze, waves lapping at the shore, and seagulls in the distance. Ryan turns to his girlfriend Tiffany. He gets down on his knees, the sand muddying his pants. Tiffany clasps her hands over her mouth in disbelief. Ryan says: "Tiffany you are the light of my life. You have made me a better man. I can't see me living with anyone else but you. Will... will you marry m-- bzzt. Thank you for using Virtua-Boyfriend, unfortunately we ran out of VC money so are shutting down.".
~~Problematic~~ Nazi developer
yeah I've found out a lot more since I posted that comment...
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